{"id":1871,"date":"2021-06-09T17:04:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T09:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hjkir.com\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2022-01-19T16:48:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T08:48:10","slug":"%e7%ba%a2%e5%a4%96%e7%83%ad%e6%88%90%e5%83%8f%e5%9c%a8%e7%89%b9%e6%a3%80%e5%8c%96%e5%b7%a5%e8%a1%8c%e4%b8%9a%e7%9a%84%e5%ba%94%e7%94%a8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hjkir.com\/industry\/en\/1871.html","title":{"rendered":"Application of infrared thermography in chemical industry"},"content":{"rendered":"
Infrared thermal imaging technology is a technology that converts invisible infrared radiation energy into visible temperature field images, and uses different colors to represent different temperatures. Since the 1970s, after decades of development, it has rapidly extended from the military field to the civilian field. Due to the rapid development and popularization of this technology, the cost of the instrument has been greatly reduced, and the infrared thermal imager is no longer a \"noble\" device. Infrared thermal imaging technology has become the most widely used testing technology in addition to the five conventional nondestructive testing of ultrasonic, ray, eddy current, magnetic particle and penetrant testing. Its rapid popularization also benefits from the following characteristics:<\/p>\n
With the development of society, the requirements for production safety and production process optimization have increased. For important equipment and facilities, fire fighting (FF) management mode is no longer adopted, and preventive maintenance (PM) and preventive predictive maintenance (PPM) are gradually introduced, Predictivemaintenance (PDM) recently, major international companies began to adopt proactive maintenance (PAM). Infrared thermography is one of the most effective tools from FF to PM, ppm, PDM and PAM. In recent years, infrared thermal imaging technology is increasingly used in equipment condition monitoring and fault diagnosis, and has achieved good results. Whether in the United States or China, infrared thermal imagers are used in all walks of life for thermal fault inspection and thermal state measurement, mainly including equipment pre maintenance testing, fault diagnosis, nondestructive testing, energy-saving testing, nuclear power plant safety inspection, building insulation, structural defect detection and leakage moisture detection. The main application fields include pre maintenance and condition monitoring of electric power, metallurgy, petrochemical, construction, boilers and pressure vessels, as well as research and development, quality control and process monitoring, medical treatment, public safety monitoring and military applications. The development of infrared diagnostic technology in China began in the 1980s. The first batch of infrared thermal imagers were used as an important measure of safety production in electric power, petrochemical, metallurgical and other industrial departments, so that it developed rapidly. In the special inspection and petrochemical industry, the national key scientific instrument project \"thermoelastic infrared image security detection system\" developed by the Institute of metals of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the General Administration of quality supervision, inspection and quarantine and other units has passed the achievement appraisal and the acceptance of the Ministry of science and technology. So far, infrared thermal imaging technology has carried out a large number of tests and achieved fruitful results in many domestic special equipment supervision and inspection units and petrochemical production and testing units.<\/p>\n
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Pressure vessels are special pressure equipment with explosion risk. They are responsible for many environmental factors such as high temperature, high pressure, flammable, explosive, highly toxic and strongly corrosive media. Thermoelastic pressure vessels are widely used in all sectors of aerospace and national economy. For the actual stress distribution of pressure vessels under working conditions and the early prediction of potential defects, various conventional methods are powerless, so the safety monitoring and prevention technology of pressure vessels has always been a hot topic in the international research. The thermoelastic effect has been studied tentatively in Britain and the United States, but it is still limited to experimental research. Whether in the special inspection industry or the petrochemical field, temperature control and monitoring can be found everywhere: such as equipment wear, fatigue, crack, fracture, deformation, corrosion, peeling, leakage, blockage, looseness, melting, insulation aging, oil deterioration, adhesion pollution, abnormal vibration, etc. most of these states are directly or indirectly related to temperature changes, many of which cannot be monitored by conventional contact temperature measurement methods, The problem can be solved by using infrared thermal imaging detection technology. The petrochemical industry is an industrial system that carries out extensive work on infrared diagnosis technology. From the 1970s, the Petrochemical Corporation organized the implementation of nondestructive testing to the 1980s, carried out equipment condition monitoring, established a three-level condition monitoring organization based on the head office, the company or the head office and branches, implemented hierarchical management, and first established a first-level organization for rotary machinery diagnosis. Since the 1990s, the development and research of infrared diagnosis technology have been gradually carried out, such as the fault diagnosis of electrical equipment, catalytic cracking unit lining damage and industrial furnaces and kilns; From the initial determination of heat loss in the factory, the scope of its application of infrared detection has been expanding, from infrared detection to infrared diagnosis, from simple diagnosis to precision diagnosis, trend analysis and life prediction. Many units have achieved practical results, among which the more prominent ones are Sichuan general chemical plant, Fushun Petrochemical Company, Changling refinery, Liaoyang Petrochemical Company, Yangzi Petrochemical Company, Daqing Oilfield, Fujian Refining and chemical company, Qilu Petrochemical Company, Tianjin Petrochemical Company, etc. The former Ministry of chemical industry also established an infrared thermal imaging temperature measurement technology center, established a professional group of condition monitoring and fault diagnosis, including infrared thermal imaging technology, formulated the use of infrared thermal imagers to carry out planned and step-by-step regular and fixed-point detection of production equipment, for important and key equipment, set up precision detection points, and establish equipment detection files, so as to make correct judgments and analyze the deterioration trend in case of equipment failure.<\/p>\n
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In petrochemical special inspection enterprises, usually due to production needs, there are many pipelines, such as steam, hot water and various industrial solutions, which are usually covered with various insulation materials to ensure the requirements of energy conservation. However, because these pipelines are usually erected on the upper part of the plant or outdoors without any maintenance measures, with the passage of time, the insulation layer and even its pipe wall may be damaged or thinned. Through the infrared thermal imager, It is very easy to find hot spots, so as to take measures to reduce energy waste and ensure the correct process temperature. At the same time, the damaged state of the insulation layer can be understood, so as to accurately calculate the required human and material resources, so as to greatly shorten the workload and time of maintenance. A large number of chemical reactions are usually involved in production, especially in various reaction furnaces, which are accompanied by a certain temperature, resulting in varying degrees of corrosion, especially in some valves, plate heat exchangers, end cover linings, etc. in the early stage, simple leakage is often invisible to the naked eye. Through the infrared thermal imager, we can judge through subtle temperature changes, so as to avoid damage to the environment and personnel.<\/p>\n
There will also be many kinds of liquid storage equipment in the factory, which will generally control the materials through a liquid level sensor. Sometimes the liquid level sensor will fail, which will often lead to overflow or cut-off, resulting in production interruption and stagnation. This can also be detected by the infrared thermal imager. Because the materials and these storage devices are different materials, their thermal capacity is different. The liquid level can be clearly reflected on the infrared thermal image. Sometimes, this is also a simple method to detect the liquid level, avoiding many potential dangers.<\/p>\n